Overview

The department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University
of Waterloo, with support from the Fields Institute, is hosting
a conference to celebrate the International Year of Statistics and
the launch of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI).
The conference is intended to review recent advances in core areas
of the statistical sciences, highlight important areas of application,
and identify pressing problems requiring further research. The themes
of the conference are modeling risk, modeling dependence, exploring
complex models, statistics in health, social networks and statistical
learning.